LPI Certification / CompTIA Linux+ Practice Test

Answer - D - You should use the mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 command to format the first partition on the slave drive on the secondary IDE channel using the ext3 file system.

Key Takeaway: The mkfs command is used to build a Linux file system, usually a hard disk partition. The syntax for this command is mkfs [ -V ] [ -t fstype ] [ fs-options ] filesys [ blocks ], where filesys is either the device name or the mount point for the file system. Blocks is the number of blocks to be used for the file system. -v produces a verbose output and -t fstype specifies the type of file system to be built. fs-options specifies the file system-specific options to be passed to the file system builder.